Could Tavi Gevinson, blog wunderkind, be turning away from fashion?

Shows, once exhilarating, have become exhausting and ennui-filled: I felt like I was watching everything going on around me through a window, she writes of the recent season.

Lately I've been looking to other places for a creative outlet and for inspiration. I miss following magazines and obsessively checking style.com the way I used to but something is different about it now. A year ago I got to go to Paris to interview John Galliano at Dior, and a couple weeks ago today he said he loved Hitler and got fired. Fashion photographs look more posed and the Rayanne Graffs I meet at school more inspiring. I only really miss being obsessed with fashion the way you miss any aspect of a former self, in a nostalgic way, not necessarily as part of a desire to go back. Now I'm more intrigued by mixing fashion with the other stuff I've been enjoying.

She wraps up by saying that maybe, my blog is turning away from fashion a little, naturally. How depressing would it be if I was that obsessed with only fashion for three years? That's how old my blog will be in a few days. Strange.

Gevinson is 14, and fashion writing isnt her professionits her self-defined creative outlet. Most enthusiasts eventually lose momentum and seek new sources of inspiration. If she does choose to refocus her blog as more of a cultural melange than a fashion-oriented pursuit, her hodgepodge of references and appealingly askew v

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